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[applause] the house will not consider another vote to increase the debt ceiling unless the senate passes a budget. we are going to point the country in the right direction. we are going to cut spending. [applause] it will be times when conservatives disagree on the way forward. we have never marched in lockstep. that is not what we do. and healthy debate is a good and needed thing. we can do that in private without doing it in public. we need to give an honest account of our actions and the reasons for that. we should challenge the left and not each other. our founders were men of prudence. take james madison. nowadays they call him the founder of the constitution. he lost some key governments -- arguments. he fought for plan to give the states the same number of states in the government. he wanted to give congress even more power. he wanted it to be able to veto state laws. madison argued vigorously for his side. when it came time to ratify the constitution, there was no greater advocate and james madison. he helped write editorials and called it the federalist papers. he led the charge
[applause] the house will not consider another vote to increase the debt ceiling unless the senate passes a budget. we are going to point the country in the right direction. we are going to cut spending. [applause] it will be times when conservatives disagree on the way forward. we have never marched in lockstep. that is not what we do. and healthy debate is a good and needed thing. we can do that in private without doing it in public. we need to give an honest account of our actions and the...
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we are not going to just keep raising the debt ceiling, we are going to make a down payment on debt reduction and we are going to putt -- we are going to point the country in the right direction. we are going to cut spending. [applause] there will be times when conservatives disagree on the way forward. we never marched in lockstep. we can deliver it in private. all we should ask for each other is that we give an honest account of our actions and the reasons for them. we should challenge the left, not each other. if we take a prudent course we will be in very good company. take james madison. nowadays we call him the founder and the father of the constitution. but at the constitutional convention he lost key arguments. he fought to give each state the same number of seats in the senate. he wanted to give congress more power. he wanted them to be able to be tough state laws. in both cases, he argued vigorously for his side. in both sets -- in both cases he lost. when it came to ratify the when it came time to ratify the constitution, there was no better person than james madison. he led the ch
we are not going to just keep raising the debt ceiling, we are going to make a down payment on debt reduction and we are going to putt -- we are going to point the country in the right direction. we are going to cut spending. [applause] there will be times when conservatives disagree on the way forward. we never marched in lockstep. we can deliver it in private. all we should ask for each other is that we give an honest account of our actions and the reasons for them. we should challenge the...
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ceiling, that undermines our ability. i hope that at some point we will get over this. that makes it more difficult. it is too important a problem to walk away from. >> over here. >> congressman, retired. what about the use of drones? dod is constrained. cbp, not so much. your thoughts? >> that is not the topic this morning. i am more focused on the aumf. we have had that issue, it is not just drones, cameras have proliferated. there is a controversy in seattle, they wanted to put up campbell's -- they wanted to put up cameras in the port of seattle. they have been counties and cities that want drones, people are concerned. i can give a lengthy answer about policy applications of that, i will say it is a big challenge. a lot of times you do not have that information. you think about the people we have captured -- the bombing and b -- the bombing in boston, there were a lot of cameras around. it is security versus liberty, that is getting increasingly confiscated due to technology. >> how about right in the back. >> thank
ceiling, that undermines our ability. i hope that at some point we will get over this. that makes it more difficult. it is too important a problem to walk away from. >> over here. >> congressman, retired. what about the use of drones? dod is constrained. cbp, not so much. your thoughts? >> that is not the topic this morning. i am more focused on the aumf. we have had that issue, it is not just drones, cameras have proliferated. there is a controversy in seattle, they wanted to...
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two major points are coming up. the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling. both of those are coming up in the next couple of months. those are leverage points that are the mirror image of the fiscal cliff. those are leverage points that if nothing passes the result is not a default on the debt. that's scaremongering from the president. those are temporary partial shutdowns. we've seen that before in 1995 when republicans stood together, and the result was some political pain, to be sure, but it was also year after year of balanced budgets and some of 9 most fiscally responsible policies from congress we have seen in modern times. \[applause] the only hope of getting anything affirmative done is requesting to come from those leverage points because president obama has indicated, sadly, he has no interest in being bill clinton. he has no interest in tacking to the middle. he has no interest in compromising with anybody, and the only way we're going to restrain the out of control spending and debt that's threatening our future is to use those leverage points to
two major points are coming up. the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling. both of those are coming up in the next couple of months. those are leverage points that are the mirror image of the fiscal cliff. those are leverage points that if nothing passes the result is not a default on the debt. that's scaremongering from the president. those are temporary partial shutdowns. we've seen that before in 1995 when republicans stood together, and the result was some political pain, to be sure,...
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the debt ceiling increase and we adopted the budget control act, which put into effect our ability to deal at least with discretionary spending. although we can argue over whether that was done well or whether it could have been done better, the fact is that that debt ceiling increase was accompanied by some fiscal reforms. that is what we are trying to achieve here today. >> senator reed? >> thank you very much. mr. benson, if we default next week, even technically, your view, i believe, is that will make our ability to do almost everything, including deal with the long-term economic problems, much more difficult. is that fair? >> first of all, you made this comment in your opening statement. we are already seeing the risk premium being priced into the market today. the short end of the treasuries are up 30 basis points. a dramatic shift. the haircuts of repose are going up. the pricing effect is already happening. if we miss a coupon, we would assume that that pricing effect would be exacerbated. the other thing that we think would happen -- again, our members are working to gain th
the debt ceiling increase and we adopted the budget control act, which put into effect our ability to deal at least with discretionary spending. although we can argue over whether that was done well or whether it could have been done better, the fact is that that debt ceiling increase was accompanied by some fiscal reforms. that is what we are trying to achieve here today. >> senator reed? >> thank you very much. mr. benson, if we default next week, even technically, your view, i...
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ceiling, that undermines our ability. i hope that at some point we will get over this. that makes it more difficult. it is too important a problem to walk away from. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]
ceiling, that undermines our ability. i hope that at some point we will get over this. that makes it more difficult. it is too important a problem to walk away from. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]
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i compared the point in the fight with that with the debt ceiling fight in 2011. the thing we found is more people were reading stories about the fiscal cliff at that exact point in that debate than they were in 2011, despite the fact that they had just gone through grueling election where no one wanted to talk about politics. it was right before christmas. we were surprised that there were not many people. i think it is indicative of a shift that is going on in the public. i do think people are more engaged in politics than they have been in a few years. probably because they're frustrated. partly because they are increasing able to see the people they see with and agree with and that keeps them more engaged. the fights right now become these life-and-death sort of deals. that gives me a lot of hope that we're finding a white, even if we do not understand how we're doing, it, people and keep them engaged with what is going on. i think one of the things that we try to do that helps with that is to try to find ways to make things a little bit more personal. i did a
i compared the point in the fight with that with the debt ceiling fight in 2011. the thing we found is more people were reading stories about the fiscal cliff at that exact point in that debate than they were in 2011, despite the fact that they had just gone through grueling election where no one wanted to talk about politics. it was right before christmas. we were surprised that there were not many people. i think it is indicative of a shift that is going on in the public. i do think people...